Mar 04 2008
Success in 8 words / 3 min
While browsing TEDTalks in anticipation of the 2008 installment, I ran across this gem by Richard St. John. I thought it was one of the most concise statements of what I have heard from many people I respect. Richard aggregated this view by interviewing 500 successful people over a 7 year period.
For those of you that can’t see the embedded video, here is the link to the page on TED.com For those of you that don’t have time to watch here they are:
- Passion (Do it for the love not the money)
- Work (Hard work, be a worka-frolic)
- Good (Get damn good at something)
- Focus (x-ray vision focus)
- Push (through shy-ness and self-doubt)
- Serve (others something they value)
- Ideas (have them)
- Persist (through the Criticism, Rejection, and Pressure)
